There is actually a pretty common pairing between high intelligence and a poor ability to be trained through mimicry. They may need actual teaching starting at a conceptual level before just being shown how to do something and expected to do it. Some people will learn ten times faster and better from a book or manual than from direct instruction. Some people can see an action once and repeat it exactly, that's a different sort of gifted.
Though I learned the right way to tie shoes in my thirties when I saw a diagram illustrating how the opposing strings worked, I don't think I have a learning disability.
When we taught my eight year old how to weave, the first thing was explaining how the warps alternated with the weft. Then the cause and effect of the treadles on the harness which alternates the warp yarns. He then extrapolated the role of the shuttle and sat down with confidence and passed the shuttle a few times. He was a bit clumsy, but knew what he needed to do.
He doesn't have instant physical competence, and time to mastery of physical tasks is on the other side of the spectrum from how he learns intellectual tasks almost instantly. A lot of it is because the brain tries to control things that other people take the automaticity of for gratned. We are lucky enough to completely understand where he is at due to shared experience. As an adult, I've learned to respond to "Here let me show you..." with "No thank you."
